Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shiny Rolls-Royce that won't run. Carried in its cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household, where Brennan, the village...
...haphazard operation is Quiz the Scientist. The five or six questions discussed on the program are selected well in advance, and board members often write out their answers to make sure they won't fall into high-toned scientific lingo that would baffle the average listener. Inveterate ad libber is impish Dr. Wood, who likes to preface thoughtful discussions of taste with such of his verses as: "Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and skunks are-phew...
...haphazard noisemakers are Britain's wailing sirens. Sounded by air pressure operating on electric oscillators, they produce a discord which in the Middle Ages was regarded as the work of the devil. This discord is the augmented fourth (example: C and F sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into...
...National Theatre Conference began to prepare to entertain the troops. A kind of holding company for the non-Broadway stage, the National Theatre Conference is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, has its roots in every high school, university and community theatre in the country. Having brooded long over the haphazard entertainment that was dished up to the doughboys in World War I, the directors of the Conference are getting set for future...
Rulers in Training. Hitler's idea long before he came to power was that Europe needed a trained, homogeneous elite, not the haphazard ruling classes that other governments in history had thrown up. In 1934 an elaborate system of training for leadership was inaugurated when the first of 32 schools, each to enroll 4,000 prospective little Fuhrers, was opened. Since 1937 all these schools have been named after Adolf Hitler, including one first named for the late youth-loving Ernst Roehm. There are also three Ordensburgen (Citadels of the Nazi Order) where, surrounded by Germanic mysticism and medieval...